YouTube will ask you this question. You better not lie
YouTube asked, the sacramental “yes” was said and… everyone dispersed
Dear user, dear user – Google begins – don’t the films you’ve watched stink of something? Ehm, maybe low-quality, automatically generated crap that has earned the term “AI slop”?
A Kapwing study found that more than 20% of the content presented to new YouTube users is this type of content, which has raised alarm among advertisers and creators. Other estimates indicate that by the end of 2026, probably as much as 90% of all content (text, image, video, sound) that will reach humanity will, to a greater or lesser extent, be the result of machine modification.
The mission is clear, but risky as never before
Since mid-March, instead of the classic question “was this video accurate”, some viewers see a pop-up in the YouTube application asking them to rate how much the material looks like AI slop. Even with our own AI Google is no longer able to effectively recognize videos posted on the platform. So users became ants doing dirty work.
While I understand the point of marking such detected materials as “Probably AI”, I am disgusted by the hypocrisy of Google itself. After all, apart from these activities YouTube is aggressively promoting its own AI tools for creators.
The website thus earns a fortune from the boom in generative content, at the same time promises to cleanse the platform of its worst version, and since everything has long gone out of control, it enlists users to work. Grief grips the four letters and hands reach out towards the ad blockers on this increasingly worse platform.
